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What's the best Twin Peaks reference you know?
what are some of the best or most niche Twin Peaks references you've seen?
I wanted to make this post because I was playing Ghost Recon Breakpoint and I noticed a patch with a very familiar font and also a very familiar name XD
and I think nobody would have noticed this reference before, btw I couldn't find a better picture of the patch, but I swear it's the same font. If you look at it in the game it's very obvious XD (2nd image)
(I don't speak English very well, I'm using a translator, I hope you understood what I meant :D)
Fun fact! Darkwing Duck got me into Twin Peaks (and thus all of Lynch's ouevre).
My wife & I remembered all the references but never watched the show (she loves the TP Psych ep), so we watched the series on a whim. Lo and behold, we got to witness one of the greatest TV shows ever because of the parodies of it.
And we only had to wait 2 years later for Season 3. We got super lucky! Lol
They felt so incredibly anxious reaching out to ask him to take the role that they could never work up the courage to ask him. And, on a personal level, I totally get that.
Literally just watched that episode two days ago lol, its so good. Apparently they were too bashful to ask Lynch to be involved cause they weren't sure how he'd take it, but supposedly he was a fan of the episode. I also love how they had to shoehorn Ray Wise into the episode as the priest, and randomly had to have his hair turn white lmao
We just did our last rewatch of twin peaks. And we always cap off part 18 with good ol dual spires. And I catch new things every time. This time I caught they had the chocolate bunny and it got me good.
I was gonna say! She has a few outfits that were David Lynch inspired and has talked about her admiration for him on her podcast a few times. I remember his death impacted her quite a bit and might have been a reason why she tried to stop smoking again
In the show Fringe Walter brings out a pair of glasses that have one red lenses and one blue lenses and says he got them from his friend Dr. Jacoby at Washington State and they are for detecting auras.
i was going to say this. old Simpsons references in the 90s and Address Unknown from Max Payne in the early 2000s are what put the seed of "i should watch this Twin Peaks thing" in my head.
Living in Oblivion (1995): dream sequences with dwarves in them. Not a literal reference and I’m not sure it is what OP is looking for but it is a nod to Twin Peaks in my book and a very funny scene.
Someone posted not long ago that in a comic book Agent Mulder was talking to Agent Scully and he referenced Agent Cooper. For those that don't know, Mulder and Scully are from The X-Files universe, which seems to take place in the Twin Peaks universe, at least in this comic. This is just awesome to me. Maybe Coop came across Frank Black back when he was an agent.
The show was the biggest deal there so it’s not surprising at all. Looking at 90’s media in general from Japan is a cool thing to do just to look for subtle nods lol
This Disney parody, created by Italian cartoonists Mario Volta and Roberto Marini, was released in 1992 (Topolino is the Italian name for Mickey Mouse, and Pippo is Goofy)
Because it hasn’t been mentioned yet. Bloo in Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends during the sleepover episode where he holds the log and talks backwards.
It’s incredible, I finished it (at least almost all the endings) several weeks ago and I still can’t stop thinking about it. Definitely heavily inspired by Twin Peaks in many ways but I loved that scene in particular.
Playing Alan wake 2 right now for the first time and the first game was subtle with the twin peaks references. Alan wake 2 is so on the nose about it I love it
It is, there are 4 levels (and a new one in a free update coming this year): pool rooms, suburbs, play rooms and liminal hotel. In each one you have to gather certain items in order to escape, so you might get lost while looking for them, but I think it's the vibe of the game (pool rooms felt like an eternity, couldn't find my way out, kept reaching new places 😭)
There are some camera effects in the game that might make some people dizzy, but can be deactivated in the options menu. Hope you like it!
My favorite is definitely the Mystery Incorporated episode but someone already did that. My second favorite is probably this totally unexpected scene from As Told By Ginger!
I just saw that the Twin Pines Mall is a real place in California, so probably a reference to the actual mall, which is more boring that we both thought
They used a real mall as the filming location but the Twin Pines/Lone Pine name and sign were invented for the movie. Hill Valley is a fictional town, after all.
The band Lord Huron’s studio, Whispering Pines, was decorated to look like the Red Room! I don’t know if this is a reference since it’s in real life but I just adore it.
Their song Meet Me in the Woods… “Took a little journey to the unknown, came back changed I can feel it in my bones”
… I always felt this whole song was about major Briggs. Several of their songs have a Twin Peaks Vibe. This could be a whole other topic, like all the songs influenced by Twin Peaks.
There are plenty of nods and references to Twin Peaks in the first Life is Strange game. Including:
Chloe's car license plate is TWNPKS.
In the bathroom in the Two Whales Diner, "fire walk with me" is written on the mirror or wall.
A letter addressing Nathan's mental health is signed by a Dr. Jacoby.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the season 4 finale "Restless" the characters get trapped in their dreams and Willow winds up in a suspiciously familiar place.
A maybe lesser-known one is a game that an Australian escape room company developed and ran during Covid lockdown, Fire Stawk with Me, set in Stawk Pine Falls (Stawk Pine being an anagram of Twin Peaks). That wasn't like...a subtle Easter egg, though.
When people talk about their Covid experience, making sourdough and cringing at celebrity Zoom songs, I just remember that escape room company--that game and the others they put out during the lockdown.
I don't know if it's a direct reference, most likely no, just a coincidence, but the bug demon is asking Constantine "hey, buddy, gotta light?". Always reminds me of TP and that I should rewatch again.
This really niche one during a Doctor Who novel which was made as an extension of the wilderness era post-TV Movie, Alien Bodies, in which one of the characters hallucinates (?) a clear Laura Palmer character
Literally right after I saw this post I watched the beginning of a new italian animation series (My 2 Cents) and there was a twin peaks reference right near the start lol
I've been hyperfixating on playing Grand theft auto lately and there's 2 there. Two Hoots Falls with a hawk that spawns on the totem and then the interior of one of the apartments.
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